Jessica Zucker has made it her mission to change this. The clinical psychologist, who specializes in women’s reproductive and maternal mental health, created the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign in 2014 to break down the stigma around pregnancy loss.

Elliana Allon

Jessica Zucker created the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign to break down the silence and stigma around pregnancy loss.

Each year for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, Zucker has introduced new initiatives and products like empathy cards, T-shirts and art prints meant to foster conversation around different aspects of miscarriage. This October, her focus is “Rites, Rituals and Representation.”

“In a culture that lacks standardized rites and rituals specific to pregnancy/infant loss, this chapter of the campaign invites us to create our own,” she told HuffPost. “I hope to impress upon culture that it is never too late to ritualize our experiences.”

Zucker collaborated with poet and artist Skin on Sundays to help 10 women honor and memorialize their losses.

The group of 10 includes Zucker, who had a miscarriage at 16 weeks. October marks the sixth anniversary of that loss.

For the “Rites, Rituals and Representation” initiative, Zucker interviewed the women about their miscarriages and stillbirths, and then Skin on Sundays wrote poems on their bodies based on their experiences.

Keep scrolling to see more photos of the participants and read the poems memorializing their losses.

Rebecca Coursey

"It's freeing to be able to express yourself and to express your mourning, to express the fear." — Jude

Rebecca Coursey

A shapethat forms from your deep wilderness.It’s not just your uterus.Your mind,your fear toois heart-shaped.Does that changehow the darkness moves,how the light?

Rebecca Coursey

"It's like a scar that you'll always have that can take a lifetime to heal." — Mary

Rebecca Coursey

The secret: love is bodilessly(the soul doesn’t start at the body).The murmur here is like the moving airleft behind starlings.They are using a tongue so huge, it will break youuntil you don’t miss it.

Rebecca Coursey

"When I envision a culture that replaces silence with storytelling, I feel safe." — Claudia

Rebecca Coursey

The soft beat of a blueberry when it falls to the earth versusthe vacant silence on the body’spavement whenit’s suddenlygone.

Rebecca Coursey

"I had four pregnancy losses." — Jessica W.

Rebecca Coursey

Tragedy and loveare filled with the samerelentless,predictable wildness.

Rebecca Coursey

“This was my first pregnancy, and nobody ever told me I could lose my baby. I thought [stillbirth] was just from the Middle Ages. I did not realize that it could happen to me." — Trisha

Rebecca Coursey

I am walking throughthe frozen fields of myselfwhere I find you on the other sideof a steel door. If love were a substanceit couldn’t reach you here.Only what remains whenlove is stripped of touch.

Rebecca Coursey

"After my first miscarriage, I was feeling alone and scared." — Shannon